ruby on rails flash messages - :alert :error :notice and :success?

Question

In several of my controllers, I have redirects/flash messages

redirect_to products_url, :notice => "message here",  redirect_to states_url, :error => "oops!" etc...  

In my sessions controller, however, upon successful authentication, I have flash[:success] = "welcome!" redirect_to user

I'd like to be able in my other controllers to do something like :success => "yay!"

This is mostly for cosmetic/consistency purposes, but are :notice, :alert and :error the only flash-types available / can I add additional types? Am I making sense?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe without changes, this is as close as you'll get:

redirect_to user_path(@user), :flash => { :success => "Message" } 

Here's some additional notes regarding the friendly flash syntax addition.

Answer 2

I just found out that in Rails 4 you can register custom types in app controller:

class ApplicationController     ...   add_flash_types :error, :another_custom_type end  # app/controllers/users_controller.rb class UsersController < ApplicationController   def create     ...     redirect_to home_path,       error: "An error message for the user"   end end  # app/views/home/index <%= error %> 

The merit goes to http://blog.remarkablelabs.com/2012/12/register-your-own-flash-types-rails-4-countdown-to-2013